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Serveuses demandées
Guylaine Dionne
Once her studies completed, Priscilla (Janaina Suaudeau), a young Brazilian whose visa has expired, must find a job if she wants to stay in Montreal. She lands a job as an exotic dancer at Elixir, a downtown nightclub, and finds herself surrounded by about fifteen young women who, like her, reside illegally in Canada. Among the dancers there is a Quebecer, the pretty Milagro (Clara Furey), who dreams of deserting Quebec winters with her daughter Chloé, for a warmer climate. To succeed, she will have to leave her mother (Anne Dorval), guardian of her daughter, and negotiate with an enigmatic RCMP corporal (Colm Feore) in order to leave the country. Despite their differences, Priscilla and Milagro will experience a friendship that will transport them beyond the walls of the Elixir, a friendship that could turn into love if their universe were one that is forgiving.
Mary Shelly
Guylaine Dionne
In 1816, aged 19, she wrote Frankenstein, the first published fantasy novel, during a stay near Lake Léman in the company of romantic writers Lord Byron and Shelley. She died in 1851 without having realized that she had given birth to one of the most important myths in Western culture. Sunken into oblivion for more than a century, it still remains unknown to the general public today. However, the life full of twists and turns of this free and avant-garde woman is as exciting as her masterpiece. So much so that the life of Mary Shelley and her novel seem inseparable. Where does reality begin and where does fiction end? This partially dramatized documentary tries to answer this question and paints a surprising portrait of this woman of letters that we are rediscovering today.
La veille
Christine Chevarie
Marguerite Paquin lives in a seniors’ home where 18 nuns from her religious congregation have succumbed to COVID-19. The film takes us from the grandeur of the landscapes of Côte-Nord, Quebec, where Marguerite has worked for 47 years, into the room where she sits confined today, finding a sort of liberation through prayer and unshakable solidarity with her sisters who are suffering.
Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine
Guylaine Dionne
The Ghosts of the Three Madeleines tells the story of three women, three generations, three faces, a strange trio, neither quite tribe nor quite family, three very distinct personalities gathered around the same first name, Madeleine, and d same quest, the reconstruction of their fragmented common memory. During a trip that takes them from Montreal to Gaspésie, Mado, Marie-Madeleine and little Madeleine plunge into their memories and their dreams, in search of their own identity. Along the way, in bed and breakfasts, on the shores of the sea and through new encounters, they learn to tame the ghosts that haunt them.
The Fall of Womenland (Terre des femmes)
Xiaodan He
A documentary on the unique sexual culture of the Mosuo people, a small minority situated in the South-West of China, and one of the last remaining matriarchal societies in the world. Without a formal marriage contract, the Mosuo traditionally build relationships based on free love and sexual satisfaction. But can the sexual liberty and power of the Mosuo women survive as modern Chinese society encroaches their ancestral land? We follow Bima, a young Mosuo woman, and learn of her reality and of the dangers that threaten her inherited way of life.
Eva Cayer, une infirmière au front
Sophie Bissonnette
Un documentaire audio sur la vie d’Éva Cayer, infirmière militaire durant la Deuxième guerre mondiale. Rien ne préparait la jeune Éva Cayer, née en 1907 dans un village au Québec, à partir outremer pour travailler comme infirmière sur les fronts de Londres, d’Alger et de Sicile durant la Deuxième guerre mondiale, sinon une grande curiosité, une détermination hors du commun et un goût prononcé de l’aventure. Le témoignage inédit d’Éva Cayer, décédée en 1992, sur son parcours et son expérience de soignante dans des hôpitaux militaires offre un point de vue unique sur une femme qui s’est démarquée à son époque.
Vivre avec l’écoanxiété
Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau
Quand on pense au réchauffement climatique, on ne fait pas forcément le lien avec la santé mentale. Pourtant, les chercheurs rapportent que les changements climatiques entraînent chez un nombre grandissant de personnes une profonde tristesse et un sentiment comparable au deuil. On donne la parole à ceux qui vivent avec cette anxiété face au sort de la planète, appelée écoanxiété.
Lou Lou La Duchesse De Rière
Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau
Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière is the first Canadian and first Indigenous woman to hold the title of Queen of Burlesque. She uses her art to break social constructs surrounding First Nations women’s sexuality and imposes news standards of beauty in the burlesque community. VICE followed Lou Lou at home, and backstage during the biggest burlesque ball in North America, which took place in Montreal.
Point d’équilibre
Christine Chevarie
Filmed from the point of view of its young subjects, A Delicate Balance takes an introspective look at the lives of four aspiring ballet dancers who candidly tell their stories and share their hopes and dreams.
Les voleurs d’identité
Christine Chevarie
Le journaliste du magazine L’actualité Marc-André Sabourin expose au grand jour le système de fraude à l’identité grâce aux témoignages exclusifs d’ex-fraudeurs qui révèlent leurs stratagèmes.
Errance sans retour
Mélanie Carrier
Winner of several awards including the Canadian Screen Award for best documentary, this documentary film is an immersive and poetic look into the biggest refugee camp in the world. Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the largest in the world. A labyrinth of makeshift shelters, home to 700 000 Rohingya exiles. In this place out of space and time, is it still possible to exist?
L’Académie (saison 3)
Sandra Coppola
L’Académie c’est l’histoire d’Agathe, Marie et Wendy, trois meilleures amies qui entament leur 5e secondaire dans un pensionnat alternatif pour filles seulement. Après avoir passé un été lamentable rempli de déceptions amoureuses, les trois filles sont déterminées à mettre une croix sur les garçons. Mais voilà que leur volonté sera vite chamboulée par une annonce inattendue…